Petticoat.



@I E. GUN/IAN.

PETTICOAT.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. I5, 1916.

Patented ihm. 2, 19.17.

Application filed August l5, 1316.

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Bf. it lmmvu iiha't we, Louis (UTMAN mul lmulimix if'luAN, ('iimus of the. United Status, :Nul lmth resulmits mi' the liuruugh nl' Munluiitun, in the city, county, :nul Stute of New York, have iux'uutml :i curtain new :nul useful .luipruvuuwht iu Petticouts, of which the l'ollmving ik :i speciiicutiou.

This invouion rLutQS. to pctticous having sclif-:uliuss'iug wui. Minds. uml the olv iwi is to provini@ :i skirt si" this character which lits :iul hui in :i Superior nimmer. Skirts are known whuroin 'the wuiStlizuu has un inc mnsihlu .iront nud :m elastic hack, hut such wuiStlw-.mls are not rfmlforming over the ahdmumi und will nu?, always stay in place in from. We have discovered thfil; the elusicity mm he. more mimulagemisly distributed hetwcvn thu front and buck' 0i lie garment, though more, in the hack than in the front, and particularly when the elustic of the front Svcticu. is subject@ to reim tively slight initial misicn, so that the puckers of this secrion land t@ disappear when ith@ garment worn7 thm'chy insuring' the (l0- sirefl Smoothnesi: wl? from. while Securing :i lmtcr fit and overcoming :my tendency' to slip.

In the :mcumpunying drawings illuslx'aiug this invention: Figure l 'is fragmentary side ulumtin Showing lhs. pet-icozit being 'Wm-n; uml Fig. am enlarged top persiga@- ive, of the Skirt, :i puri. 0f 'lle waistband at the baci: being broken uway t@ reveal the elastic wiliin.

Tho pcticout hug il@` placket f2 mi m' eo- Wurd @uc Side, :mil 'l out and buck mastic ertions ui iu it wnishzmsl. These elastic svg-tions 1. l med in :i lmnwu nimmer hy 'inserting lungi' 1s of elastic im tween the walls of the Wuitftlmml nml sewing them to he material ihrouglmut their lengh hy lines of Siizchiug (l, this sewing being purfm'mud while ille ulnsiics :irc strecheil. so thai, when the. sewing is compiute-'ii and i@ elustis released those. sections ol' h@ wais?.-

Serial No. 114,959.

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Huit this 'giur gj i *front 5l t, Ut us {imnpzuwl with th: i5 n the. rum und tends tu niie- :ipgwur when gurmuu is Worn.

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